But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
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“Do you know why I love mathematics?" "Because it blew your mind for free when you couldn't get drugs?" Eccles snorted in… — Brendan Halpin Copy Share Image
The notion of infinity is our greatest friend; it is also the greatest enemy of our peace of mind. — James Pierpont Copy Share Image
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which… — Len Evans Copy Share Image
Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my students, you do not enter the future… — Jaime Escalante Copy Share Image
“The golden proportion is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One of the strangest features of string theory is that it requires more than the three spatial dimensions that we see directly… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
I found marketing to be highly descriptive and prescriptive, without much of a foundation in deep research. I brought in economics, organization… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
“As mathematicians, proportionality principle state that; if 2=4, 3=6, 4=8 and 5=10, so from above sequence, someone can easily guess the value… — Ntambara Sylvestre Owen Berbason Copy Share Image
One of my colleagues likes to say that, mathematics is the - he thinks about the only subject that he knows in… — Peter Woit Copy Share Image
... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In mathematics we do not appeal to authority, but rather you are responsible for what you believe. — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
Two plus two is not sometimes equal to four ... It is equal to four plus one because one is a powerful amalgamation. — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
“Outside the port, the slashed rock of the unnamed asteroid tumbled and spun in dynamics known only to the gods of chaos… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
“The simple act of moving your body will do more for your brain than any riddle, math equation, mystery book, or even… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule. — George Oppen Copy Share Image
The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is… — Jean Dieudonne Copy Share Image
There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger. — Anaxagoras Copy Share Image
I feel that one should employ methods that reflect the physics of the problem at hand rather than the methods one happens… — Lawrence Shepp Copy Share Image
I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“When he said someone had 'died', Erdős meant that that the person had stopped doing mathematics. When he said someone had 'left',… — Paul Erdős Copy Share Image
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“...the world injected its patterns into human language at the very inception of that language; mathematics sleeps in every utterance, and can… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
No matter what engineering field you're in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“A mathematician, however, who could back his prophecy with mathematical formulas and terminology, might be understood by no one and yet believed… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“multiplication is vexation, division is as bad, the rule of three perplexes me and fractions drive me mad! (the story girl)” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A display connected to a digital computer gives us a chance to gain familiarity with concepts not realizable in the physical world.… — Ivan Sutherland Copy Share Image
To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the deepest beauty of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
...the feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling,… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
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